A prison in the Philippines is using podcasting to share information about the jailhouse “paradise”. The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City, The Philippines, is now podcasting, a first among jails in the Philippines. The goal of the podcast is to disseminate information on the activities of and their projects […]

Video blogger Sarah Meyers (Pop 17) caught up with Steve Chen, one of YouTube’s founders, recently, and got a scoop on YouTube live video. The company plans to have a YouTube live video streaming service this year: “We‚Äôll do it this year,” said Chen. “Live video is just something that we‚Äôve always wanted to do, […]

Gravitas is a unique video podcast that pairs original music compositions with computer graphic simulations of the universe in motion. Here’s the podcast description: GRAVITAS is a visual and musical celebration of the beauty in a dynamic universe driven by gravity. Animations from supercomputer simulations of forming galaxies, star clusters, galaxy clusters, and galaxy interactions […]

NBC’s Quarterlife – a heavily-hyped serialized drama from the creators of thirtysomething and My So-Called Life – was supposed to be a bold new direction for television. The show was hyped as “the first television-quality production for the Web.” Unfortunately, it was a pretty awful television-quality production for the Web. In December, we told you […]

NBC & Pando Networks, a provider of P2P content delivery services, announced today that Pando will be providing video delivery services for the NBC Direct service. While it’s interesting to see a mainstream network using P2P to distribute video, it looks like NBC Direct is going to be another misbegotten proprietary Internet television offering. It […]

Kent Nichols – one of the viral video gurus behind Ask A Ninja – has an interesting new post at his site. He looks at the state of Internet video, calling it the golden age: “The Indie TV movement is on the rise. The club of show runners is now open to anyone with a […]

There’s a fun post on the 10 Weirdest iPod Accessories over at PC Mag. Our favorite is probably the Dreamgear i.sound Plasma, above. It’s a psychedelic plasma globe that has four integrated speakers, giving you a “custom-designed electro-magnetic lightshow dance to the beat of your music.” Of course, if you really want to see weird […]

Apple today updated its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models. In addition, MacBook Pro includes the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory, and Apple‚Äôs Multi-Touch trackpad, first introduced in MacBook […]

TalkShoe has introduced an iPhone application that lets you participate or conduct community calls from your phone and even lets you use the service to create podcasts. Features: iPhone users can join live calls and view upcoming calls they may want to participate in. The iPhone application provides a one click link to auto dial-in […]

People now spend twice as much time surfing the Web as they do watching TV, according to new research from IDC. IDC surveyed nearly one thousand Internet users for the survey. They found that: The Internet is the medium on which online users spend the most time (32.7 hours/week). This is equivalent to almost half […]